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Attract, Prepare, Retain: OSEP National Summit on Improving Effective Personnel for Children with Disabilities
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The Intervention IDEAs brief series describes interventions based on evidence, for practitioners and parents that address the academic, developmental and behavioral domains of infants and...
This webinar was intended to enhance awareness of the Program GPRA Performance Measures requirements and provide an overview of processes used to support ETechM2 Program GPRA performance data-- collection and information gathering, analysis, and reporting.
This collection of research articles and briefs contains valuable information on intensive interventions from a variety of sources.
NTACT is charged with assisting stakeholders in implementing evidence-based and promising practices and predictors that promote positive post-school outcomes for all students with disabilities.
This webpage contains guidance for the instruction of students who are culturally or linguistically diverse and for making valid decisions for determining special education eligibility in the following areas: Tier 1 Core Instruction, Tiers 2 and 3 Interventions, and Culturally Responsive Assessments and Interpretation.
Questions and answer document regarding Significant Disproportionality.
Webinar detailing the statute that requires States to annually collect and examine data to determine whether significant disproportionality based on race or ethnicity is occurring in the State and LEAs of the State with respect to: identification of children as children with disabilities, including identification as children with particular impairments, placement of children in particular educational settings, and incidence, duration, and type of disciplinary actions, including suspensions and expulsions.
Replacing a virtual conference, there will be three symposia held, each with three components. The first component will be pre-work materials posted online by OSEP prior to the event. The second component is a two-hour event that will be a combination of live and pre-taped presentations.
In 2006, the U.S. Department of Education developed a Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities (Tool Kit) to support the Department’s initiative to improve outcomes for students with disabilities.
The final rule published in the Federal Register on December 19, 2016, amended the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to help to ensure that States meaningfully identify LEAs with significant disproportionality and that States assist LEAs in ensuring that children with disabilities are properly identified for services, receive necessary services in the least restrictive environment, an
Individuals join an online space because they feel an affinity for the issue or topic and want to connect with others who are similarly engaged. The potential value of an online collaborative space, sometimes known as an online community of practice, is the promise that users envision when they join. The realized value lies in how well the space addresses their unmet needs.
Webinars are an important venue for sharing information, but they are so frequently used to communicate content, that we sometimes overlook the need for the interaction that webinars were designed to provide. Originally envisioned as a web-based seminar, too many webinars are presented as web casts, lacking the interaction and refection that a seminar provides.
The OSEP Symposium on Significant Disproportionality explored why this is an important topic for all of us as we work to ensure that children with disabilities, regardless of race or ethnicity, are provided educational services and accommodations that enable and prepare them for post-school education and career opportunities.
OSEP has a new infographic that provides information about the OSEP technical assistance (TA) centers, which are funded under the following IDEA programs: Personnel Development Program; Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Program; Educational Technology, Media, and Materials Prog
This website is maintained by the Monitoring and State Improvement Planning Division (MSIP) division of OSEP. It provides resources pertaining to States’ compliance with IDEA, including archives of each State’s annual State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) and technical assistance resources to support States in meeting their SPP.
OSEP’s third symposium in the 2017 Symposia Series, “Conveying Our Stories--Displaying Our Data,” focused on how States, districts, and Part D-funded investments can develop engaging stories and effectively use data to improve communication strategies used with stakeholders, leadership, and decision makers. The symposium explored best practices and tips for more impactful and effective communication efforts. Examples included: Information on building an effective dissemination plan and Using infographics and data visualization practices to communicate the meaning of data in a way that is accessible, accurate, and actionable for a variety of stakeholders. Tips covered: Using social media to improve outreach and Measuring success using analytic tools.
During this presentation experts, including current OSEP grantees, discussed what we know about: determining the factors that drive high expectations, such as child, family and other stakeholder engagement, how to support each child and family in establishing and meeting those expectations, working towards each child having access to an education that meets her or his unique and individual needs, how high expectations relate to State academic content standards, and incorporating evidence-based practices in the IEP. All of this will be presented in light of how these practices and principles relate to the United States Supreme Court in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District RE-1, commonly referred to as “Endrew F.”
The topic of this symposium was supporting high-quality special education services to children with disabilities by addressing the capacity needs of educators, IEP (individualized education program) teams, and administrators to develop and implement quality IEPs.
Individuals who have trained in the same profession and do related work have a lot in common. Crossorganizational partnerships provide structures for individuals to find each other and pursue topics that are of shared importance to them. Partnerships help individuals to define their roles and develop shared beliefs and practice standards. Increasingly, partnerships are going beyond the boundaries of defined organizational missions and collaborating with external groups that are influential in creating changes that they support.
Few practices span the boundaries separating people who do shared work as successfully as virtual collaboration. New technologies offer opportunities to join together in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. Today, we have the potential to learn from and with individuals working across the state, across the nation, and across the world. Virtual collaboration has important implications for advancing practice because it holds the potential to open communication among individuals with varying perspectives, diverse experiences, and differing roles who might not interact in its absence. The reach of virtual networks greatly expands the ability to engage leaders and implementers across boundaries that often separate people who have a common interest in an issue.
The purpose of this brief is to help model developers turn what may be implicit knowledge about model implementation into explicit information about what the model is, how it works, and what is needed to implement it to achieve the intended results.